Subgenre Sampler
Comedy: 5567 Films to Buy & Rent
Road to Nashville, The (1967)
- Dir. Will Zens
Feat. Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins
- An enjoyably corny plotline about organising a country concert is the frame for this stellar line–up of 60s mainstream country stars.
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Rocket To The Moon (1967)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe…
- Jules Verne’s sci–fi classic gets a stupendously silly makeover in this comic chronicle of a scientific consortium’s attempts to launch a…
Secret War of Harry Frigg, The (1967)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Paul Newman, Tom Bosley
- WWII comedy following the sorry exploits of several high ranking allied generals who are captured in Italy but refuse to take orders from each other…
Thief of Paris, The (Le Voleur) (1967)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Genevieve Bujold, Marie Dubois
- Enjoyable comedy with Belmondo as a young man cheated of his inheritance who in turn develops a taste for thieving. Set in Paris at the turn of the…
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
- Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing…
- Likeable, though overlong musical set in the swinging 20s and something of a sequel to Andrew's "The Boyfriend". Harebrained farce predominates…
Waterhole No 3 (1967)
- Dir. William A. Graham
Feat. James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Maggie Blye…
- Western comedy spoof which boldly sends up 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'.
James Coburn plays a con man and grifter who comes into possession…
Woman Times Seven (1967)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio Gassman…
- Shirley MacLaine inhabits seven different women in seven fanciful, star–studded mini–stories of adultery for Italian dir. Vittorio De…
After The Fox (Caccia alla Volpe) (1966)
- Dir. Vittorio De Sica
Feat. Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland…
- Peter Sellers plays a con–man who escapes jail and must masquerade as a film–director, managing to pull off a major gold bullion…
Arabesque (1966)
- Dir. Stanley Donen
Feat. Sophia Loren, Gregory Peck
- Whimsical spy shenanigans in London, with Anglo–Arab relations straining over the custody of a hieroglyphic code. Sophia Loren's extraordinary…
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
- Dir. Bernard Girard
Feat. James Coburn, Aldo Ray, Camilla Sparv
- James Coburn stars as Eli Kotch, a captivating rogue and full–time con man in this comical crime caper.